Clothes-slide



( No Model.)

H. O DURLER. CLOTHES SLIDE. N0. 423,743.

Patented Mar. 18, 1890.

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, similar reference -1etters designate similar parts, Figure 1 represents aperspective view UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFIcE.

HERMAN OJDURLEB, or OSHKOSH, WISCONSIN.

CLOTHES-SLIDE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. {123,743, dated March 18,1890. 1

- Application filedDecember21,1.889. semi no. 334,493. (No model.) i

To all whom it may concern}.-

Be it known that I, HERMAN C. DURLER, a citizen of the United States, residingat Osh: kosh, in the county of WVinnebago and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Slides 5 and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains tomake and usethe same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon,v which form a part of this specification.

The invention relates to improvements in clothes-slides, the object being to prevent the clothes, when transferred from the boiler to the Wash-tub or from the tub through the wringer to the basket, from coming in contact with the edges of either the boiler, washtub, or basket, and't-hereby becoming soiled; and it consists in the construction and novel combination of parts hereinafter described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claim hereto appended.

In the accompanying drawings, in which of a clothes-slide embodying the invention, connecting an ordinary wash-boiler and washtub. Fig. 2 represents aperspective view of the same, connecting a wash-tub in front of a wringer mounted on the edge of said tub, and a clothes-basket. Fig. 3 represents an edge View of the clothes-slide, and Fig. t represents a reversed plan thereof.

Referring to the drawings by letter, A designates a clothes-slide embodying the invention, which slide has a perfectly flat floor a, and is provided along its side edges with the upstanding flanges a, the floor and flanges being preferably integral. The slide is provided at one end with the depending flange a adapted to engage upon the edge of -a wash-boiler, and also, preferably, integral with the slide. At the opposite end of the clothesslide is attached centrally to the lower surface of the floor Ct a catch B, the straight shank of which turns in a sleeve secured to the floor a. The outer end of the catch is bent at right angles to the shanlcto form a hook I), and at its inner end it is providedwith two similarcurved bends standing on planes intersecting each-other at right an gles, which bends respectively form the stops 1) b When the stop I) rests against the floor a, the hook-point 1) stands downward at right angles to the said floor, and when the stopb rests against the floor the said hookpoint stands in the same plane as the floor.

In Fig. 1, in which 0 designates a washboiler and D a wash-tub, the flange a is shown engaging the edge of the boiler, and the stop I) is turned against ,the floor of the slide, so that the hook-point b will engage over the edge of tub. As the floor a is flat, the tub may be supported on a benchvat a point as high as the boiler and the clothes slid from the latter to the former with little effort. a. I,

In Fig. 2, in which E designates a wringer mounted on the edge of the tub D, and F designates a clothes-basket,'the flanged end of the slide rests within the basket and the hook-point b engages over the edge of the tub outside of the Wringers, the deflecting or guide board f of which projects within the slide and stands a short distance above the floor thereof. It is evident that the clothes can touch against neither the edge of the tub nor that of the basket.

To'disengage the slide from the tub, the operator puts his handunder the floor a and turns the catch till the stop 5 rests against the floor, and then by raising the end of the slide slightly it can be easily removed.

I 'am aware that a clothes-slide provided with flanges at its sides and at one end is not new in the art, and such I do not broadly claim.- Having described my in'vention,I claim The herein-described clothes-slide, having a flat floor, upstanding side flanges, and depending end flange, and provided at the end opposite the flanged .end with the catch B, having the hook-point b and curved stops 1) b and with its shank turning in a sleeve secured to the under surface of the floor of th slide, substantially as specified, t y

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

HERMAN vo. DURLER. 

